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Debating the budget |
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The ‘budget blues’ syndrome
Khaled Ahmed
We have learnt new ways of making a hostile assessment of budgets. It has to be hostile because a Manichean approach is more striking than an analysis full of reservations of this and qualifications of that
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Budget Debate 2009 – declining interest?
Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
Despite repeated demands, this year too, no formal or informal role of the Committees was allowed for in the budget session
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About time Parliament asserts its role in budget-making
Ahmed Bilal Mehboob
For all practical purposes, budget-making remains an exclusive domain of the unelected executive, while elected representatives are intentionally kept out of the process. This must change to entail a broader involvement of the elected representatives in order to make budget-making an inclusive process
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Budget debate requires system-wide change
Moeed Yusuf
Political parties are not in the business of seeking professional advice on defence-related affairs. The attitude is one of resignation: since the Army is going to dictate terms anyway, why expend energy on the issue. Outfits that conduct trainings for parliamentarians also tend to leave out this area
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No taxation without argumentation!
Safiya Aftab
There exists an intrinsic link between representation and the power to tax. It is clear that as long as the budget preparation process remains as opaque as it is in Pakistan, ordinary people will have little stake in democracy
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“We have wasted the last ten years”
– Ehsan Iqbal, PMLN MNA and Information Secretary
by Shaukat Piracha |
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Features |
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Tales of endurance
Rinku Dutta
searches for light amid ‘vast darkness’
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Zeno the great
Altaf Hussain Asad
reviews an important collection of articles
by Safdar Mir
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